U.S. INDICTS EX-FBI MAN AS ILLEGAL FOREIGN AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300200022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 14, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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U. S. Indicts Ex-FBI Man %i
As Illegal Foreign Agent
indicted John Joseph Frank, 42-year-old Washington attorney and
former FBI agent, on charges of acting for the Dominican Republic
in this country without registering as a foreign agent.
Frank also is a former employe of the "super-secret Central'
Intelligence Agency.
The eeindietment said Frank, "also known as John
was a Dominican agent
from about May, 1954, until the flier from Eugene, Ore. Murphy
present. He was accused of col- was working for a Dominican
meeting information for Gen- airline at the time. The maga-
eralissimo Rafael Trujillo, the zinc said he had been hired to
Dominican dictator. fly De Galindez from New York
The indictment was made to the Dominican capital. Dom-
; public several weeks after the inican authorities said Murphy
grand jury was reported receiv- was killed in a private quarrel'
ing evidence in connection with in Cuidad Trujillo by a Domini-
the disappearance of Jesus de can flier.
Galindez, Columbia University
The U. S. State Department
professor and bitter critic of the has asked the Dominican Re-
Trujillo regime. De Galindez public to make a further inves-
dropped out of sight on a New tigation.
York street in March, 1956. His
friends contended he had been kidnaped.
The offenses charged against
Frank-failing to register and
acting as a foreign agent with-
out 'registration with the at-
torney general-are punishable
by fines up to $10,000 and im-
prisonment .for five years on'
each count, in the event. of con-;
viction.
Arrested In Washington
Frank was a special FBI agent
from 1941 until early 1949, and
later was,emRloyed by. CIA. He
left government work to enter
private law practice here in 1953
and lives in suburban Alex-
andria, Va.
Shortly after the indictment
was returned, the FBI said
Frank had been taken into
custody by special agents in
Washington.
mane ,early this year
associated the De Galindez dis-
appearance with the reported
death in the Dominican capital
of Gerald Murphy, 23-year-old
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